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February 2026 SWE-SE-SCI update! New scholar added: Mazen Mohamad, RISE. Franke moved to the Swedish Defence University. New signature work by Caporuscio: A self-sustainable service assembly for decentralized computing environments (JSS) mrksbrg.com/swesesci/

Leaving Örebro and the WASP Winter Conference 2026. Nice event! Good to meet old friends and software+CodeScene got some visibility in this AI-heavy community. The mix is obviously needed to make things happen.

First 2026 SWE-SE-SCI update! New signature works by Ovais Ahmad: Technical debt is not just technical: An industrial case study in large agile sw. development (JSS) and Heyn: Causal models for specifying reqts. in industrial ML-based sw - A case study (JSS) mrksbrg.com/swesesci/

At Øredev this week, a big dev conference at home. Space is very present this year. Speaking tomorrow - should find a way to integrate something astronomical. oredev.org #oredev

November SWE-SE-SCI update. New signature work by Bucaioni: A checklist of quality concerns for architecting ML-intensive systems (JSS) mrksbrg.com/swesesci/

We have extended the deadline until November 9th, Anywhere on Earth.

This just might be your chance to join us at **AST 2026** in Rio de Janeiro!

Consider submitting!

See: conf.researchr.org/home/ast-2026

Would be a fun topic. A funny hypothesis I've come across is that verbosity and especially many comments by a top-LLM can help smaller, cheaper LLMs process the code... kind of related.

Wish I had! LLMs tend to be verbose creatures when it comes to NL text. Haven't seen any numbers for code. But verbose or not, we'll see a lot new code. And volume in general is one of the main challenges with code =)

Happening right now: Matthias Wagner presents his licentiate thesis on SE and the EU AI Act! Proud supervisor. 👍

The deadline is just around the corner: you have 4 more days!

Submit to Automation of Software Test (AST 2026) and have a chance to meet up with the community in Rio de Janeiro, Brazil, in April 2026 (co-located with #ICSE2026)

#AST2026 #CallForPapers #softwaretesting

cc @mrksbrg.bsky.social

CFP: AST 2026 - Automation of Software Test (co-located with ICSE). Deadline: 26 Oct 2025 (AoE). Seeking strong work in testing/automation. Details: conf.researchr.org/home/ast-2026

October SWE-SE-SCI update. New signature work by Alhanahnah: An empirical evaluation of pre-trained large language models for repairing declarative formal specifications (EMSE) mrksbrg.com/swesesci/

Finally in York! I’ve wanted to visit for a long time. So many things here connect to the Swedish WASP program. Great training and symposium! @cfaa.bsky.social

AST (Automation of Software Test) is back and will again by co-located with ICSE’26 (Rio de Janeiro, Brazil).

We are looking forward to your submissions on anything related to software testing!

conf.researchr.org/home/ast-2026

#softwaretesting #softwareQA #ICSE #ICSE2026

September SWE-SE-SCI update. New scholar added: Tomas Gustavsson, Karlstad University. mrksbrg.com/swesesci/

August SWE-SE-SCI update. Two new signature publications, both from Karlstad. 1) Ovais Ahmed: It all starts with structure: investigating learning dynamics in large-scale agile (JSS) 2) Ahmed: Smart manufacturing: MLOps-enabled event-driven arch for steel production (JSS) mrksbrg.com/swesesci/

July Swe-SE-SCI update. New signature work by Jongeling: How are informal diagrams used in SE? An exploratory study of open-source and industrial practices. (Softw. Syst. Model.) mrksbrg.com/swesesci/

June Swe-SE-SCI update. New scholar added: Leonardo Horn Iwaya, Karlstad University. mrksbrg.com/swesesci/

Checking if the meetups are greener on the other side of the bridge today! In Copenhagen to listen to Microsoft. And others!

Guess I'm not the only one doing #icse25 laundry today?

May Swe-SE-SCI update. New signature work by Linåker: Public sector open source software projects - How is development organized? (EMSE) mrksbrg.com/swesesci/

My @icseconf.bsky.social 2025 trip starts now! It's a long one, and despite heading west, I'm relieved I don’t have to set foot in the US this time. Looking forward to meeting the community! #icse25

#TechDebt is just around the corner and you do no want to miss the presentation of the 𝗧𝗲𝗰𝗵𝗗𝗲𝗯𝘁 𝗠𝗮𝗻𝗶𝗳𝗲𝘀𝘁𝗼 on Monday 28 at 14:10! 💪
Zadia Codabux and Neil Ernst will share insights from the Dagstuhl Perspectives Workshop on “Reframing Technical Debt”!
🌎 Check out the full program👇
lnkd.in/dauWNgm5

April 2025 SWE-SE-SCI update. Two new signature works. Bucaioni: Model-driven engineering for software architecture (JSS). Jolak: An empirical investigation of the impact of architectural smells on software maintainability (JSS). mrksbrg.com/swesesci/

Mostly in town for the #Kent reunion, but took the chance to give a talk at KTH. Technical debt and LLM-driven refactoring. Now musik non stop till slut!

TechDebt 2025 Welcome to the website of the ACM/IEEE International Conference on Technical Debt 2025. The TechDebt conference series is the premier event to bring together leading software engineering researchers,...

Come and discuss #technical #debt in Ottawa in April! @techdebtconf.bsky.social offers presentations from industry (Google, CodeScene, ...) and academia, and is a great opportunity to meet engineers and researchers.

Reg: conf.researchr.org/attending/Te... (Two-day co-located or Single-day fee).

March 2025 SWE-SE-SCI update. New scholars added (both Chalmers): 1) Inayat and 2) Alhanahnah. New signature works: 1) Gallina (MdU) - Towards an ontology for proc. compl. w. legislations. (JSEP) 2) Ovais (KU) - Strengthening Large-Scale Agile Teams (JSEP) mrksbrg.com/swesesci/

Yes, maybe! 😀

February 2025 SWE-SE-SCI update. New signature work by Badampudi: Large scale reuse of microservices using CI/CD and InnerSource practices - a case study (EMSE). Research done at Ericsson. mrksbrg.com/swesesci/